Who Reported It First? Who Cares. — Can we talk about the nonsense of caring about which news outlet first reports a big piece of news? I'm not talking about a genuine scoop—a report that wouldn't have otherwise come to light—but about news that we're all eventually going to find out anyway.

The Anniston Star to eliminate Monday print edition — Another Alabama newspaper has decided to reduce its days in print. This time, it is a smaller daily that has been praised for its commitment to community journalism. Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, probably in October …

Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby — I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction.

Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad — Digital magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is finally available for the iPad, three months after it launched for Android . With the app, users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue, the New Yorker and Real Simple for a flat monthly fee.

In New Orleans, profit trumps readers — I appreciate the efforts of readers of the Times-Picayune to keep the New Orleans newspaper published seven days a week. Unfortunately, they will be unsuccessful. — Here is a simple, boiled down reason: Readers value the public service the newspaper produces.

Building the Great Newspaper Paywall — The beleaguered newspaper industry has finally settled on a digital revenue strategy—the metered paywall—and now everyone's pitching in to get it built. Paywalls have their critics, their boosters, more critics and then the critics-who-also-want-to-be- boosters.

New York Magazine to Expand The Cut Blog — It used to be that New York magazine's cheeky blog items expounding on fashion and politicians were accessories to the main attraction — the articles in the flagship magazine. But next month, New York is shifting more attention online.

The nepotistic linker — Mathew Ingram, GigaOM's media blogger, gave one of his semiyearly lectures on the sanctity of the hyperlink yesterday. Linking is “a core value of the web.” Links are “the currency of the collaborative web.” Links are “one of the crucial underpinnings of the internet and the web.”

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